The White Christmas and Other Merry Christmas Plays

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This collection of short Christmas plays was designed for performance by children and amateur groups — a practical anthology of the kind that fueled the early twentieth-century tradition of seasonal dramatic entertainment. The plays blend fairy-tale elements, domestic comedy, and Christmas sentiment in the mode of Barrie and Maeterlinck's children's theater. They are period pieces of considerable charm, useful for understanding how the Christmas theatrical tradition developed from Victorian family entertainment.